As we stated before FIP is one of the fieldbus systems, these systems usually consist of many control loops that communicate and interact with each other via single network channel (i.e. cable). Here we will try to develop a scheduling policy that will guarantee a fair distribution of this medium between these control loops, and at the same time takes into account several important parameters i...

An improved QED Parton Shower algorithm to calculate photonic radiative corrections to QED processes at flavour factories is described. We consider the possibility of performing photon generation in order to take into account also the effects due to interference between initial and final state radiation. Comparisons with exact order α results are shown and commented.

Evaluation Goal: Evaluate FIP, which implements the Basic algorithm together with our two extensions, on problem instances from 4 domains in the IPC2008 FOND track Blocksworld, faults, first-responders, forest Compared against two state-of-the-art planners: Gamer & MBP Results and Discussion FIP has a better problem coverage than Gamer & MBP [Table 1] Gamer & MBP cannot solve more than 10 probl...

Currently the concept of Software Factories (SF), where reuse plays a leading role, is being adopted. Due to the different approaches in this area, and although SF concept is not new in Software Engineering, it is still not mature enough to clearly identify the treatment of certain variables within the process. One of these variables is Quality. Therefore, this paper presents a historical revie...

Purpose: This paper seeks to demonstrate that a truly learner-centred enterprise education programme can be developed within a traditional business school environment. Approach: This paper unites the broad teaching philosophy of Alfred Whitehead with that of Allan Gibbs’s enterprise specific teaching philosophies to consider the fitness of the recently developed hic et nunc enterprise framework...

In a coffee growing area of Papua New Guinea, a developing country in the western Pacific region, coffee factory workers were found to have more chronic symptomatic respiratory impairment than a carefully matched group of neighbouring villagers. This impairment was not related to their duration of employment. Coffee factory workers were found also to have a greater prevalence of reversible but ...

In this paper we present our approach, the migration of the life cycle paradigm into the manufacturing engineering area. We introduce our approach by defining and scientifically founding the new concepts, advanced Manufacturing Engineering, Factories as Products and Factory Life Cycle. We present the used technologies and tools in supporting the factory life cycle activities, by comparing them ...

We challenge the appropriateness and feasibility of a wholesale substitution of computerized automation for human resources in the factory of the future. Employees will exert greater ·influence than ever before because of the complexity, cost and critical role of the equipment with which they work. Tills view is supported through examples of the significance of human ·inputs in almost every lev...

In this article, we describe an approach to empirical software engineering based on a combined software factory and software laboratory. The software factory develops software required by an external customer while the software laboratory monitors and improves the processes and methods used in the factory. We have used this approach during a period of five years to define and evaluate an agile ...

In this article, we describe an approach to empirical software engineering based on a combined software factory and software laboratory. The software factory develops software required by an external customer while the software laboratory monitors and improves the processes and methods used in the factory. We have used this approach during a period of four years to define and evaluate a softwar...